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CHAPTER VI. TELLS OF MY EDUCATION.
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I had not been a week in the place before I saw one thing very clear— that I should never get on with Mr. Lambie. His notion of business was to walk down the street in a fine coat, and to sleep with a kerchief over his face in some shady veranda1. There was no vice2 in the creature, but there was mighty3 little sense. He lived in awe4 of the great and rich, and a nod from a big planter would make him happy for a week. He used to deafen5 me with tales of Colonel Randolph, and worshipful Mr. Carew, and Colonel Byrd's new house at Westover, and the rare fashion in cravats6 that young Mr. Mason showed at the last Surrey horse-racing. Now when a Scot chooses to be a sycophant7, he is more whole-hearted in the job than any one else on the globe, and I grew very weary of Mr. Lambie. He was no better than an old wife, and as timid as a hare forbye. When I spoke8 of fighting the English merchants, he held up his hands as if I had uttered blasphemy9. So, being determined10 to find out for myself the truth about this wonderful new land, I left him the business in the town, bought two good horses, hired a servant, by name John Faulkner, who had worked out his time as a redemptioner, and set out on my travels.
This is a history of doings, not of thoughts, or I would have much to tell of what I saw during those months, when, lean as a bone, and brown as a hazelnut, I tracked the course of the great rivers. The roads were rough, where roads there were, but the land smiled under the sun, and the Virginians, high and low, kept open house for the chance traveller. One night I would eat pork and hominy with a rough fellow who was
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carving
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